Hand mit Uhr, Public art sculpture in Hansa quarter, Berlin, Germany.

Hand mit Uhr is a bronze sculpture from 1975 by Joachim Schmettau, standing on the forecourt of the Gymnasium Tiergarten at Altonaer Straße and Lessingstraße. A hand rests on a white concrete stele whose slightly twisted cube top it grips; the wrist is cut off above an electronic clock with red digital display that no longer works. Height with base is 4.5 metres, diameter about 1.5 metres.

Sculptor Joachim Schmettau created this work in 1975 as part of a public art funding program designed to enhance community spaces. The installation emerged during a period when Berlin invested in art projects to strengthen neighborhood identity.

The work merges human form and timekeeping in a way that connects residents with their surroundings in daily life. Passersby notice how the open palm presents the clock as something ordinary and integrated into the street.

The sculpture stands at the corner of Altonaer Strasse and Lessingstrasse, on the forecourt of the Gymnasium Tiergarten. Its digital clock stopped working years ago, so it cannot be used to tell the time. The site is a busy crossroads, and the sculpture remains a target for graffiti, so it may look marked on arrival.

The clock stopped working within a few years of the sculpture's 1975 installation because of weathering, so the hand gave no time for decades. During the 2012 restoration it received a new clock, and the red mosaic on the stele's upper cube was replaced with orange fair-faced concrete. The sculpture also appears in Depeche Mode's 1983 video for Everything Counts, with the band standing around it as the song mentions grabbing hands.